DVD Details

• Format: DVD Region 2 for the UK
• Number of Disc: 3
• Genre: Drama,Dystopia
• Starring: Joseph Fiennes
• Studio: MGM
• Release Date: 2018

What’s it about

Based on Margaret Atwood¡¯s award-winning, best-selling novel, The Handmaid¡¯s Tale is the story of life in the dystopia of Gilead, a totalitarian society in what was formerly the United States. Facing environmental disasters and a plunging birthrate, Gilead is ruled by a twisted fundamentalism in its militarized ¡°return to traditional values.¡± As one of the few remaining fertile women, Offred (Elisabeth Moss) is a Handmaid in the Commander¡¯s household, belonging to the caste of women forced into sexual servitude as a last desperate attempt to repopulate the world. In this terrifying society, Offred must navigate between Commanders, their cruel Wives, domestic Marthas, and her fellow Handmaids ¨C where anyone could be a spy for Gilead ¨C with one goal: to survive and find the daughter who was taken from her. Also featuring Yvonne Strahovski and Samira Wiley.